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however, that no one can ever experience any direct contact with matter
and thus be justified in claiming that everything consists of it. The universe
we contact is the universe that we perceive in our minds. The famous
British philosopher David Hume expressed his thoughts on this point:

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always
stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or
shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time
without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception. 25
We can never step outside these perceptions and encounter matter as it
"really" is, so it is wholly nonsensical to construct any philosophy regard-
ing matter as an absolute entity we can experience directly. As a theory,

materialism is totally unfounded, right from the outset.

The Formation of Perceptions in the Brain is
Not Philosophy, But Scientific Fact

Materialists claim that what we have stated here is a philosophical view.
But the plain scientific fact is, we cannot interact with the "external" mate-
rial world, but only with a world in our brain. This is not a matter of phi-
losophy. All medical schools teach in detail how images and feelings form
in the brain. Facts proven by twentieth-century science, and by physics in
particular, clearly show that we can never reach the originals of physical
matter; and that in a sense, everyone is watching the "monitor" in his brain.

Everyone who believes in science, be he an atheist, Buddhist, or of any
other belief, must accept this fact. Even the materialist who denies the exis-
tence of Allah cannot deny scientific reality.
That Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, George Politzer and others were never
able to comprehend such a simple, evident fact is still startling, even
though their level of scientific understanding was primitive and insuffi-
cient. Our highly advanced science and technology make it even easier to
comprehend this explicit fact. Materialists, on the other hand, are paralyzed
with their fears of even partially comprehending this fact and thereby, real-
izing how completely it demolishes their philosophy.

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